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A Calendar is conceived and designed by logic and astronomy rather than emotions and myths of politics. If people don’t understand the calendar they follow, educate them. If any section of the society thinks that the calendar is its prerogative, liberate the calendar, rather than mutilating it or abandoning it. If there is any problem in the calendar it has to be investigated and corrected by a forum of astronomers, climatologists and environmental scientists, sitting along with traditional astronomers historians and Tamil scholars. Any society, which doesn’t care to investigate and understand its own heritage of science, is not going to make any progress. It will always …

Indian authorities in the northern state of Punjab have quarantined around 40,000 residents from 20 villages following a Covid-19 outbreak linked to just one man. The 70-year-old died of coronavirus - a fact found out only after his death. The man, a preacher, had ignored advice to self quarantine after returning from a trip to Italy and Germany, officials told BBC Punjabi's Arvind Chhabra. India has 640 confirmed cases of the virus, of which 30 are in Punjab. However, experts worry that the real number of positive cases could be far higher. India has one of the lowest testing rates in the world, although efforts are under way to ramp up capacity. …

UN Reports from India - Tamil National High Commissioner for UNHRC is in India on an official visit; Ms Navanetham Pillai raised the Sri Lankan issue during her discussion today with the Indian external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee. Commenting on Sri Lanka to the reporters, she said ‘I have asked the Sri Lankan government to allow human rights monitors there. I have not got any response. I am going to press for that.’ She further said, ‘our view is that you can never succeed through military solution, the problem can be solved politically. UN wants Sri Lankan government to ensure safety of the civilians.’ More to this, today Human Rights Council conclu…

Evergrande: Chinese property giant 'misses another payment deadline' The hugely indebted Chinese property giant Evergrande has missed interest payments to overseas investors for the second time in a week, reports say. Evergrande was due to pay foreign bond holders $47.5m (£35m) by Wednesday. But bondholders told Reuters news agency and Bloomberg that they were yet to receive any payment. Evergrande has not commented publicly on the issue. Once China's top-selling developer, the company is now facing debts of more than $300bn. It has been prioritising its liabilities within China, amid concerns of social unrest. Last week, Evergrande missed an…

Solheim to give up Sri Lanka role Mr Solheim at last month's Geneva talks Norway's peace envoy to Sri Lanka, Erik Solheim, has announced that he will soon give up the job. Mr Solheim told journalists in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, that he wanted to concentrate more on his job as overseas development minister. Mr Solheim has played a central role in moves to resolve Sri Lanka's civil war. Last month he brokered the first face-to-face talks between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels in three years. 'Above expectations' At the end of those talks, in Geneva, the Sri Lankan government and the Tigers agreed to curb violence and rene…

A Long Shot At Peace In Sri Lanka Source: Tehelka - June 30, 2006 An old intelligence hand, National Security Adviser MK Narayanan is said to know Sri Lanka like the back of his hand. PC Vinoj Kumar on how the LTTE’s longtime critic might impact policy The National Security Adviser (NSA) MK Narayanan is set to play a more visible role in the Indian government’s initiative in Sri Lanka. As the Centre’s emissary, he will be holding discussions with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on the recent developments in the island nation, which appears to be sliding into war. For Narayanan, this will be a test of his diplomatic skills. The Intell…

The Rediff Interview | Tamil editor N Vithyatharan October 17, 2006 N Vithyatharan is the editor of Jaffna's largest selling Tamil daily, Uthayan. A few months ago, the man who has met elusive Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supremo V Prabhakaran 'several times' in his jungle hideouts was urged by President Mahinda Rajapakse to convince the LTTE leader to resume the aborted peace talks. Prabhakaran refused. Over 1,500 people have died in the violence that erupted since the talks broke down in April -- on Monday, October 16, an LTTE suicide bomber rammed a truck laden with explosives into a naval convoy, killing 92 sailors, perhaps the worst act of terro…

Tamil Tigers unveil latest tactic By Roland Buerk BBC News, Colombo Whatever you may think of their goals and methods, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers have always been innovative. Experts say the technology was rudimentary but effective It was they who refined the suicide bomber, and used them to devastating effect. And what other insurgent groups can boast a naval wing? The rebels have boats armed with guns, known as the Sea Tigers. Now they have confirmed what Sri Lanka's government had suspected for a long time - they have an air capability too. The first mission of what the rebels are calling the Tamil Eelam Air Force, or TA…

SLA artillery attacks on Eachchilampattu villages continue [TamilNet, July 30, 2006 16:46 GMT] Major General Nanda Mallawarachchi, Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), remains at Kallaru army camp in the Serunuwara police division directing the military operation to capture Mavilaru area amid announcement by Defence Ministry spokesman and Minister Mr.Keheliya Rambukwella in Colombo Sunday that Sri Lankan troops are now about one km away from the controversial site, military sources in Colombo said. Sources in Serunuwara area said that there is a likelihood of troop movement from Kallaru to Mavilaru area early Monday morning. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has been …

Justin Trudeau's supposed elbow assault nothing but a set up. NDP deception

'RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations' showcases India’s shadow warriors A new book by Yatish Yadav brings to light some of the daring exploits of India’s spies and spymasters. Yatish Yadav The intelligence included the Tigers’ military formations as well as civilian populations so as to avoid casualties. Peace is an illusion because India is constantly at war in the shadows. Just as soldiers in uniform guard our borders, a different kind of highly trained and motivated soldiers crisscross the world in various guises with deceptively innocuous code names; meeting sources, activating sleeper spies and double agents, deploying honey traps, conferrin…

A new generation of college students in Tamil Nadu has taken up the cause of the Tamils of Sri Lanka. Articulate, wellinformed and uncontaminated by the influence of time-serving politicians they have successfully forced an agenda on the three main political parties in the state. The spark which has ignited the students’ rage in Tamil Nadu against the United States-sponsored United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on Sri Lanka and India’s eventual support to it began in one of the most unlikely places, the Loyola College at Chennai. The academic excellence of the college, most believe, is a result of its depoliticised student body. Shattering the myth co…

NPC Chief Minister Mr C.V. Wigneswaran has to be profusely thanked and appreciated by Tamils for his honesty in conceding that he is not a natural leader of Eezham Tamils representing their aspirations, but a planted one by New Delhi to implement the 13th Amendment. Wigneswaran’s revelation and his efforts to muffle voices in Tamil Nadu and in the diaspora have to be understood in the background of what M.K. Narayanan had told the TNA in May 2009 that, “we know better what is good for Tamils.” New Delhi simulating a leadership for the political surrender of the Tamil cause poses new challenge to Tamils all over the world, writes an activist for alternative politics in Jaf…

By Ron Ridenour - Orwell couldn’t have done it better: Sri Lanka’s genocidal government, client of genocidal Israel, exchanges honors with genocidal victim State of Palestine The government of Palestine presented Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa with the “Star of Palestine” the highest award of the State of Palestine, on January 6. “The relations between Sri Lanka and the State of Palestine are exceptional and we remain committed to extending our fullest support to the State of Palestine and the friendly people of Palestine,” President Rajapaksa said during the conferment ceremony. “President Rajapaksa, on behalf of the people of Sri Lanka, conferred…

CIA Agent Who Grilled Saddam Hussein Claims ISIS Wouldn’t Be Around If The Dictator Was Still Alive Mischa Pearlman in NEWS It was 11 years ago today that Saddam Hussein was executed after the Iraqi Special Tribunal had convicted him of crimes against humanity - specifically for the murder of 148 Iraq Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, which was retribution after an assassination attempt against him. Now, thanks to the Chilcot report, we all know that Tony Blair lied about there being weapons of mass destruction. Many would also argue that George W Bush used 9/11 to further propel the country's military-industrial complex by wa…

Somali sex gang groomed and raped underage British schoolgirls saying it was 'part of their culture' Men ranging in age from 18 and 22, encouraged girls, one of who was just 13, to have sex with them in a flat and hotel rooms http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/somali-sex-gang-groomed-raped-4706033?ICID=FB_mirror_main This is the shocking moment a member of a brutal prostitution gang checked into a hotel to rape a 13-year-old girl. In the sickening CCTV shot, twisted Jusuf Abdirizak, 20, is seen at the reception of the Premier Inn in Bristol where he and Said Zakaria, 22, attacked the terrified girl. The teenager had been traffic…

Meet the new leader of Pegida UK https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10153371042471939/

A Calgary family is facing deportation back to Sri Lanka even though two of their children were born in Canada, CTV News reported on Tuesday. The family’s eldest son, nine-year-old Maneth Fernando, penned a letter to Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Marco Mendicino, in a last ditch effort to have the Canadian Government’s intervention. "Canada is a safe place with lots of good schools and my friends are here. If I go back, the kids in the Sri Lankan schools will laugh at me because I can only speak English," Maneth has told CTV News. The letter indicates the boy is worried "something bad will happen" to his parents and younger siblin…

Mahinda Rajapakse says LTTE a terrorist Organisation. But what he did in the year 1988 ? He is a terrorist and against India! Indian Govt and Congress should notify this ! (Please Forward this video to the whole world)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 BY DINITHA RATHNAYAKE 0 COMMENTS Allegedly makes LTTE suspects kneel at gunpoint Beauty queen among earlier Welikada revellers BY Dinitha Rathnayake State Minister of Prison Management and Prisoners’ Rehabilitation Lohan Ratwatte who, as exclusively reported by The Morning on Monday (13) had allegedly forcibly entered the Welikada Prison premises with a group of his friends whilst under the influence of liquor, had allegedly similarly entered the Anuradhapura Prison on Sunday (12) evening. According to sources, the State Minister, who hails from an influential political family, had attempted to degrade and punish…

Kurdish areas like Irbil have seen less violence than elsewhere in Iraq A group of Sri Lankan migrant workers who paid $2,000 each to secure jobs in the Gulf were duped into travelling to Iraq, according to an aid agency. They had their passports taken and were held against their will in the northern city of Irbil, the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) said. The Tamil workers realised they were in Iraq because of the cold weather. After a month they spotted a UN office and asked for help. The IOM helped fly them back to Sri Lanka on Monday. They realised they were in Iraq because the weather wasn't as good as they expected IOM s…

Macron Lashes Out At United States Over Double Standard Energy Policies U.S. trade and energy policies have created a “double standard”, with Europe left paying higher prices for its natural gas, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday. France, the latest—and largest--country to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty, has switched from being a net exporter of energy last year, to being a net importer of energy this year, after problems with its nuclear fleet surfaced. To compensate for its declining nuclear fleet and Russia’s complete halt of natural gas shipments into the country, France has turned to the United States for LNG—only …

தற்போதைய படை நடவடிக்கைளால் இடம்பெயர்ந்து படைக்கட்டுப்பாட்டுப் பகுதிக்குச் சென்ற மக்கள் தங்கியுள்ள முகாம்களிற்கு ஆயுதங்களுடன் கறுணா கும்பலைச் சேர்ந்தோர் ஊடுருவுவதாக சர்வதேச மன்னிப்புச் சபை தெரிவித்துள்ளது. Sri Lanka: Armed groups infiltrating refugee camps Press release, 03/14/2007 Armed groups, some identified as part of a breakaway group of Tamil Tigers known as the Karuna faction, are infiltrating camps for newly displaced people and abducting residents, according to sources known to Amnesty International. Tens of thousands of people have been fleeing their homes after intense fighting in the eastern region of Batticaloa over the weekend, pushing the n…